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The following text is from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel Kidnapped. The young narrator, David Balfour, has walked for the first time toward his ancestral home, the house of Shaws.

The country was pleasant round about, running in low hills, pleasantly watered and wooded, and the crops, to my eyes, wonderfully good; but the house itself appeared to be a kind of ruin; no road led up to it; no smoke arose from any of the chimneys; nor was there any semblance of a garden. My heart sank.

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